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Joachim Boaz

Fanzine Column: What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XX

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Poul Anderson’s The People of the Wind (1973). I mysteriously adored this one back in 2010… Sometimes my oldest reviews befuddle. I praised Anderson’s refusal to create “monumentally homogeneous societies” yet despaired at its moments of silly and dull battle sequences. Doris Piserchia’s A Billion Days of Earth (1976). The best of Piserchia’s novels I’ve read so far. She was an original voice. Philip José Farmer’s Night of Light (1966)– a fix-up of “Night of Light” (1957). I remember enjoying this Father Carmody tale despite my inability to write a review. As many know, it influenced Jimi Hendrix’s song “Purple Haze” (1967). Robert Silverberg’s collection Needle in a Timestack (1966) contains one of my favorite early Silverberg tales–“The Pain Peddles” (1963).
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Joachim Boaz

@libramoon I read that one as a teen (and many Ender books, etc.). I had a lot of Mormon friends who always pushed his work (kindly of course) on me.

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Joachim Boaz

@libramoon I now see how much he's inspired by Mormon theology.

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